Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: June 27, 1993 Sometimes, when they make a musical out of another piece of literature, it really sings. The new format expands and enhances the original, gives it new breath and life. "My Fair Lady" springs to mind; the world is richer for Lerner and Loewe's adaptation of Shaw's "Pygmalion." How about what "Guys and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 16, 1994 > To paraphrase an old Harold Arlen standard, everyone's "got a right to sing the blues." But African-Americans have the blues in their blood. For more than a century, they've known it, lived it, developed it, refined it. Blues songs typically tell of the pain of poverty, the loss of love, and the burden of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 1994 Onstage this week, it's a field day for America's two favorite pastimes: baseball and melodrama. If you didn't know that 'fan' was short for 'fanatic' and you're having withdrawal symptoms since the strike, you won't want to miss "Diamonds," a musical revue about bats, stats, bunts and the boys of summer, having Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 17, 1995 Actor-writer-director-doctor Jonathan Miller, when he was in San Diego a few years ago, talked about how Shakespeare productions are so different in England, because there, Shakespeare is bred in the bone. It’s the same with Chekhov and the Russians. This week, for an all too brief run, San Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 31, 1996 In my opinion, theater is most effective when it makes you think. And it goes even further, and deeper, when it makes you think, ‘What would I have done?’ Questions of philosophical significance are being posed on two San Diego stages, in Frank McGuinness’ “Someone Who’ll Watch over Me” at North Coast Repertory Theatre, and in Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 6, 1996 We may have just passed the Day of the Dead, but Latino theater is alive and well in San Diego. There were four dramatic events co-occurring in one week. Our first local Latino theater company, Máscara Mágica, held a Día de Los Muertos fiesta and fund-raiser... and our newest addition, Latino Ensemble de San Diego, Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer